Real girls are in fashion - at least this month. Yesterday's New York Times Thursday Styles featured a front page piece about recent fashion magazine stories with plus-sized models. If you read Glamour you have seen pictures of Crystal Renn (the subject of the Times article) a very gorgeous size 12. The current fashion pages of V Magazine feature Crystal and other plus-sized beauties in their fashion pages this month. So all of this begs the question are these just one offs? What do women really want to look at in fashion magazines? Could fashion's aesthetic be changing to depict a range of bodies? What do you think?
If you are a full fashioned beauty yourself, here's a link to the current issue of Lucky and the plus-sized clothing web sites they love. This came to me by way of my friend Lisa Dolan the owner of
Leelee's Valise one of the sites included in the lineup. I feautured Leelees in my book Style Evolution as one of my favorite resources for curvy girls.
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Mac says... Every few years, a "real" looking model appears on the fashion scene and everyone hopes it's a harbinger of things to come. Whether with darker skin, imperfect teeth, larger bodies, "ethnic" features, these rare women are held up of proof that the industry is changing.
But, come on now, I think we all know that this is mere tokenism and 95% of models will remain tall, emaciated and teenaged. Let's not kid ourselves.
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